Tired of clutter in your Gmail app? Get control of your email with Inbox by Gmail

Many of us have learned to put up with cluttered email accounts. From messy contacts, to giving up on deleting spam and promotions, and to even not replying to important emails, we’ve just accepted the fact that email is downright messy.

According to the statistics at the Google Play Store, up to 5,000,000,000 users have downloaded the Gmail app created by Google to manage your Gmail email.

In 2014 Google decided to take email to the next level with Inbox by Gmail. Since its inception, Inbox has only been downloaded by 50,000,000 users. Using very basic stats, only 10% of you are actually using Inbox by Gmail. The slow adoption rate may be due to comfort – your Gmail app is doing good enough for you. It may also be due to the fact that new software can be confusing and intimidating. Put the excuses behind you and check out Google’s latest offering in Inbox by Gmail. You won’t regret it.

It’s time you get control of that messy email and take advantage of some of the most intuitive features available in any email apps.

Give it a try. Many people who have tried it took a little bit of time to get comfortable, but once they did they never went back. A little time invested up front can help streamline events in the future.

Your email inbox should help you live and work better, but instead it often buries the important stuff and creates more stress than it relieves. Inbox, built by the Gmail team, keeps things organized and helps you get back to what matters.
• HIGHLIGHTS – Get the most important information without even opening the message. Check-in for flights, see shipping information for purchases, and view photos from friends right up front.

• BUNDLES – Similar messages are bundled together so you can deal with them all at once. And get rid of them with one swipe.
• REMINDERS – More than mail, you can add Reminders so your inbox contains all the things you need to get back to.

• SNOOZE – Snooze emails and Reminders to come back when you are ready to deal with them: next week, when you get home, or whenever you choose.
• SEARCH – Inbox helps you find exactly what you’re looking for— from your upcoming flight to a friend’s address— without having to dig through messages.
• WORKS WITH GMAIL – Inbox is built by the Gmail team, so all your messages from Gmail are here, along with the reliability and spam protection of Gmail. All of your messages are still in Gmail and always will be.

Getting started with Inbox

Get to know the new bundled labels in your inbox

Some of your messages are already sorted into labels like Promos, Social, and Finance. They’re bundled in your inbox so they take up less space and can be dealt with all at once.

Try out labels yourself:

Pin an email in a label

Pin emails you still need to read or follow up on.

Open a label in your inbox like Promos or Finance.

Open an email you want to make sure you take a look at later.

Select Pin .

Now you’ll see your email directly in your inbox, as well as inside the label. Use the switch at the top of your inbox to see a list of only your pinned items .

Plan or procrastinate

Manage your to-do’s from your inbox. Add reminders for yourself or snooze emails and reminders until you’re ready to deal with them.

Try out reminders and snooze:

Create a reminder for yourself

Your reminders show up right in your inbox.

Open Inbox.

Go to the Create button .

Select Reminder.

Type in your reminder.

Save.

Tip: Your reminder can help you get things done by including relevant information like phone numbers for people and businesses. As you’re creating a reminder, choose a suggestion that has an icon next to it. For example, “call Zack’s Pizza.”

View and edit snoozed items

You can see everything that’s snoozed in the main menu under Snoozed. Repeating reminders have an icon on the right to help you find them . You can open the repeating reminder to make changes that will affect all future reminders in the series.

Organize your inbox the way you want it

The labels that come in your inbox, like Promos and Finance, are yours to customize. Plus, you can create your own labels.

Learn more about what you can do with labels:

Check out label settings

For labels that you don’t need to check very often, you can set the label to only show once a day or once a week. And if you don’t want your emails grouped together, you can turn off bundling so messages show up individually instead.

Here’s how to check your label’s settings:

Open a label in your inbox. Or go to the main menu and find your label.

Select the Settings icon . On mobile, it’s at the top. On a computer, it’s next to the label’s name in the main menu.

You can create your own labels and choose to have emails automatically added to them. If you already use labels in Gmail, your labels are already listed in the main menu . But they won’t show in your inbox until you turn on bundling in the label’s settings.

Except for unlike the Gmail app, this one cannot handle any other e-mail providers except for it’s own. That’s the main issue for many people I think… I have my Hotmail and Yahoo accounts synced in my Gmail account and that just makes it the best client that I have tried so far.

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